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Xignite, a provider of market data cloud solutions for financial institutions and financial technology companies, has raised USD20.5 million in a Series C funding round led by Tokyo-based QUICK Corporation, part of the Nikkei Group and Japan’s largest financial information provider.
StarVest Partners, Altos Ventures, and Startup Capital Ventures, Xignite’s current investors, also participated. This new round brings Xignite’s total funding to USD37 million.
In connection with the capital raise, Xignite and QUICK will be partnering to deliver Xignite’s cloud-based data solutions in the Asian market as well as QUICK’s proprietary financial data and information through Xignite’s market leading APIs.
H Kurt von Moltke, a corporate lawyer with more than 30 years of experience structuring, negotiating and executing complex M&A transactions, including billion-dollar mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, is joining the Jenner & Block as a partner in the Chicago office and co-chair of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Practice.
He also joins the firm's Securities, Corporate Finance and Corporate practices.
Von Moltke focuses his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, both hostile and negotiated, as well as private equity transactions, complex corporate debt restructurings, corporate finance and securities transactions and counselilng public company boards of directors. He
Private equity investor Adveq has held the final closing of two funds, – Adveq Specialized Investments and Adveq Europe Co-Investments – at EUR 323 million and EUR 102 million, respectively.
Both funds held their final closings in January 2016, attracting interest and support from investors around the world, including pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.
Today’s announcement comes following a strong 2015 for Adveq, marked by record fundraising.
Sven Lidén, Chief Executive Officer at Adveq, says: “The private equity industry continues to evolve and it is only by keeping pace with changing dynamics and responding to investors’
Piper, a specialist investor in consumer brands has led a GBP20 million investment into British affordable luxury jewellery brand, Monica Vinader.
Alongside its own investment of GBP14 million, Piper has brought in US consumer specialist Winona Capital, who have invested GBP6m to help accelerate growth in the US.
Monica Vinader founded her eponymous business in 2007 to provide customers with affordable luxury pieces that bridge the gap between costume and fine jewellery. The brand quickly became renowned for its iconic friendship bracelets, vibrant gemstones and cutting edge diamond pieces enabling customers to style, stack and personalise their jewellery. The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Winslet and Alicia Vikander are among Monica Vinader’s many high profile
Archangels, the Scottish-based business angel investing syndicate, and Scottish Investment Bank (SIB) have committed to four further rounds of investment support for expanding Scottish businesses with additional funding totalling GBP3.9 million.
The additional cash will be used by Blackford Analysis, Fios Genomics, PowerPhotonic and Administrate to fund further growth through such areas as research & development, product development, sales and marketing.
Archangels, based in Edinburgh, has been at the forefront of early stage business angel investing in Scotland for more than two decades.
Niki McKenzie (pictured), Investment Director at Archangels, says: “As investors, we know that it’s just
Hunt Valve (www.huntvalve.com), a fluid power engineering company specialising in severe duty valves and components, has been acquired by May River Capital as part of the private equity firm’s broader strategy to build a global fluidics engineering platform company.
“Hunt Valve is our first step toward building a platform of engineered products, components and service businesses to solve the toughest fluidics application challenges for customers in the metals, energy, process, transportation, government and infrastructure market sectors,” says May River Capital Partner Chip Grace.
“We are excited to partner with Brad Sterner as our platform leader and President/CEO of Hunt
Antares Capitalis serving as administrative agent and lead arranger on a GBP145 million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of AIM Aerospace by Liberty Hall Capital Partners.
Headquartered in Renton, WA and founded in 1988, AIM Aerospace is a leading, independent supplier of composite ducting, substructural and interiors parts for the commercial aerospace industry.
“The team at Antares is responsive and knowledgeable about our space, making them a great partner on this transaction,” said Rowan Taylor, Liberty Hall’s founding partner.
“Liberty Hall’s aerospace and defence expertise along with AIM’s customer relationships and track record of success is
NovitasPartners and FTCL, two fintech sector boutique corporate finance firms, are merging to meet growing demand for from clients within the payments, data, financial software, market infrastructure, business process outsourcing, and securities services subsectors.
NovitasFTCL provides M&A, capital raising and strategic advisory services. With over 45 years of combined experience within the fintech space, the merger of the two companies will provide extensive industry knowledge, long standing industry contacts, the ability to execute complex and often cross-border transactions, and a focus on the specificities of the UK and European markets.
John Gilligan and Alexis Thieriet have together completed over 100
Triad has joined the AIREX Market Partner (AMP) Program, a global service that gives companies their own turnkey, self-curated, and co-branded AIREX Markets.
AIREX Markets allow partners like Triad to offer their customers, clients, website traffic, and employees a large and growing assortment of financially actionable applications, information, and reports (Financial AIR).
Serving clients for 40 years, with domestic and international clearing in over 50 markets, Triad provides superior and personalised prime brokerage services to hedge funds of all sizes, family offices, RIAs, and professional traders. The deal with Airex offers the New York-based Triad and their global customer
Guernsey's funds sector is well-placed ahead of the activation of the Island's 'third country' passport, delegates at a Guernsey Finance-hosted ‘funds masterclass’ in London has heard.
Approximately 300 delegates were in attendance on Wednesday [3 February] to hear a panel of leading funds experts debate the current market landscape as it relates to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIMFD) and National Private Placement (NPP) regimes.
Held at the British Museum, the event titled ‘NPP or third-country passport?’, considered the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) recommendation that Guernsey should be given access to the AIFMD passport scheme and how the
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